Failing to retreive browser version for firefox - browser-version-api 404

[maikthomas]

Hi there! I noticed that firefox is not installing due to a 404 not found response from https://browser-version-api.herokuapp.com/linux/firefox/stable

Is that a heroku app of this project? https://github.com/nathanoehlman/browser-version-api

Anything we can do to fix this?

[fippo]

looks like download.mozilla.org no longer works. Tagging @jan-ivar

[fippo]

so it fails in applyRegex with:

/^.*((?:Firefox |firefox-)[0-9\.ba]+\..*[exe|dmg|tar.bz2]).*/

and a download url of https://download-installer.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/firefox/releases/107.0/win32/en-US/Firefox Setup 107.0.exe

[fippo]

so it seems like the file name convention changed which requires this regexp

/^.*((?:Firefox |firefox-)(.*)[0-9\.ba]+\..*[exe|dmg|tar.bz2]).*/

(i.e. something between "Firefox" and the version)?

[maikthomas]

Looks like the herokuapp went offline... https://browser-version-api.herokuapp.com/linux/chrome/stable

[DamonOehlman]

Feels like it might be worth making the endpoint that is queried for versions configurable (via an ENV var) in the setup script:

https://github.com/DamonOehlman/travis-multirunner/blob/45c8b7d327d5f1f665650988f244c7001bafd5fb/setup.sh#L52

Gives people some ability to host their own equivalent service if that's what they are keen on doing, and gets us away from any single point of failure. I guess additionally we should look at moving the default away from heroku if it's proving to be mostly unreliable. I might have a poke around and see what might be a good alternative for hosting something. To be honest, I'm not doing a lot in JS land at the moment but that doesn't mean that I wouldn't be happy to whip something up in either Kotlin or rust as an alternative hosted service :)

[fippo]

just calling browser-sleuth directly from travis-multirunner should be easy enough (and a tiny bit faster even?)